2 weeks ago, I attended a regional study meeting on tourism for setting up a “Wider Tourism Region” in our Hida region, which is half the size of the Gifu prefecture. The participants were central, regional and local government officials, trade associations, tourism associations, journalists, and a few civil organizations like us. The idea is […]

Last month, I spent 3 days in the Saitama prefecture, 1 hour north of Tokyo by train, to attend a training course for the “Primary School Long Stay Nature Experience Coordinator”, a program sponcered by the Ministry of Education. 4 Ministries including the Ministry of Education work for a project to dispatch 1.2million primary school […]

by Daniel Patton. He was an exchange English teacher to the Kanayama town, now a part of a wider Gero-city. He is from Ketchikan city, Alaska, and this is an article he posted in the Ketchikan citizens’ news site.
November 02, 2004
Tuesday
In 1986, through the work of many forward-thinking politicians and educators on both sides of […]